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five-day week

Noun

Meaning

five-day week (plural five-day weeks)

A working week of five days, the remaining two days in the week being rest days.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff. Deidre Hall

Love is the only industry which can't operate on a five-day week. Mae West

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming. Iain Banks

In 1931, after its brief experiment with a five-day week, the Soviet Union changed to a six-day week. Source: Internet

The five additional national holidays in the earlier five-day week remained and did not fall on the state rest day. Source: Internet

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